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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, November 19, 2007

Iraq - Bush's Best Case

From the now respected Abu Aardvark (Mark Lynch)
Without getting in to his arguments or my reservations, I just wanted to lay out (Stephen) Biddle's best case scenario as he presented it: if everything goes right and if the US continues to "hit the lottery" with the spread of local ceasefires and none of a dozen different spoilers happens, then a patchwork of local ceasefires between heavily armed, mistrustful communities could possibly hold if and only if the US keeps 80,000-100,000 troops in Iraq for the next twenty to thirty years. And that's the best case scenario of one of the current strategy's smartest supporters.
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